Mists of Pandaria: Black Market Auction House

Always wanted Tier 3 gear for transmog or never got Ashes of Al'ar to drop? You're in luck now, with the Black Market Auction House.

The BMAH was designed to be a fun type of gold sink--where rare items are periodically generated and placed on a special Auction House for players to bid on. Players cannot list items themselves; instead, they are generated by the server and "listed" by an in-game NPC. The AH is "run" by in The Veiled Stair, with nearby.

Rare mounts, vanity pets, TCG items, Tier 3 armor, and epic recipes will find their way to the Black Market Auction House, and more controversially, heroic raid epics will also be available. While not many items will be up per week, it does raise concerns that raiders will be forced to buy armor with gold to help progression, which will put an emphasis on gold farming and change the server culture and economy. There's also some ilvl 483 PvP items for sale as well.

Bids start in the - range and there is no buyout option. The sky is the limit when competing against other collectors for items.

We've compiled a list of BMAH items across beta servers and organized them under the cut!

Click the cut to see a list of items and learn about the NPCs selling them!

Items

We've been periodically checking the BMAH on all beta servers to get a fuller sense of what exactly is available. Since only a few items are up at once, there could be many more we haven't seen yet! User annerajb has also compiled a pretty extensive list in a comment.

Comment by Morsei

Comment by Interest

on 2012-10-17T03:45:10-05:00

Well Arcanite Ripper goes for 70k on BMAH for some reason...

Comment by ContingencyX

on 2012-10-17T15:10:36-05:00

I like this idea. I work full time/OT. I dont have hours sitting and waiting and hoping to get into raids. But I do farm a lot. And I mean a lot. Ill prolly never in my life even see some heroic items drop, let alone gear up my character to even get to it.

This is somewhat beneficial to people in my position. Yay for blizz helping the more casual players. Id give my leg for some of those end game items that I dont have the time to invest for. Now all I gotta do is cough up the gold, which I have plenty to spare. I live on the AH.

Blizz has my approval.

Comment by Joschka

on 2012-10-21T11:19:25-05:00

Invincible seen on Realm: Wrathbringer-DE (EU), went out for goldcap.

Comment by Napalmtheelf

on 2012-10-25T15:23:08-05:00

I just found the place and checked it out....nice epic plate belt.....82k gold!

I'm sorry but who on Earth has that kind of money, despite obviously someone having it to get the price that high.Its just not normal surely?It certainly puts such things out of the reach of casual players and most definately promotes a sneak visit to your friendly gold seller.I thought Blizzard was trying to stop that kinda thing, while this simply promotes people swapping 'real' money for wow gold to obtain these thing.What a totally dumb idea.

Comment by Adamsm

on 2012-10-25T17:06:00-05:00

I just found the place and checked it out....nice epic plate belt.....82k gold!

I'm sorry but who on Earth has that kind of money, despite obviously someone having it to get the price that high.Its just not normal surely?It certainly puts such things out of the reach of casual players and most definately promotes a sneak visit to your friendly gold seller.I thought Blizzard was trying to stop that kinda thing, while this simply promotes people swapping 'real' money for wow gold to obtain these thing.What a totally dumb idea.

Psst....You do realize that the BMAH is a Gold Sink run by Blizzard for the players right? That it's not players putting items up on it, and creating those prices?

Comment by Ackadia

on 2012-11-03T21:14:02-05:00

definitely sells on the Black Market as it was on Aerie Peak last week. It went for 999,999g !

Comment by groovz

on 2012-11-04T01:55:34-05:00

Actually its not.

The Cenarion Hatchling is what you receive for $10 and the money goes to the Earthquake relief fund.

Comment by Interest

on 2012-11-04T02:41:55-06:00

definitely sells on the Black Market as it was on Aerie Peak last week. It went for 999,999g !

Wow that must've been a hell of a bidding war.

Or you're joking =P

Comment by Reirae

on 2012-11-08T12:00:26-06:00

We had Invincible up last night on the BMAH :D Can't see it on this list.

It went for 999,999g

Comment by BurningBatsu

on 2012-12-02T06:50:30-06:00

Sentinels server, Went to pay her a visit, nothing but blood-soaked invitations for the Brawlers guild. Might check back in a few days, but not getting my hopes up with how much they seem to be pushing the brawlers guild lately

Comment by Azrile

on 2012-12-02T10:25:04-06:00

From what I can tell, the Brawler´s invites do not interfere with other items. Yesterday we had 4 items and 10 Brawler invites. Before BG, there were times when nothing was listed, so that is probably what you saw yesterday.

The only thing I won so far was an epic tabard that comes from the card game. I think it was 25k or so.... I am kinda a mid-player. I have more than enough gold to buy anything I need, but not enough that I will ever win the crazy stuff like Invicible. Mostly I am just looking to buy the card game rewards and maybe one of the mounts that isn´t impossible to get (but that I don´t want to farm for).

Comment by staramor

on 2012-12-14T21:25:29-06:00

Location for the Black Market:

Veiled Stair Map which is hard to see on the world map. East of Vale of Eternal Blossoms Region, Due west of the center part of the Jade Forest Region (due west of Serpents Heart level). Accessible by non flying mound from the NW corner of the Valley of Four winds.

On the Veiled Stair map the Tavern in the Mists with the Black Market (not where the Black Prince is) is a little South East from the writing on the Map which says "Tavern in the Mists".